ENCOURAGEMENT
– OXYGEN TO THE SOUL
BREAD
11 Therefore
encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
24 Pleasant
words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:24 (NIV)
21 The
wise in heart are called discerning, and pleasant words promote instruction. Proverbs 16:21 (NIV)
28 But
commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this
people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see. Deuteronomy 3:28 (NIV)
5 But my
mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief. Job 16:5 (NIV)
17 You
hear, O Lord, the desire of the
afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry. Psalms
10:17 (NIV)
17 Learn
to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the
fatherless, plead the case of the widow. Isaiah 1:17 (NIV)
16 May
our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace
gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and
strengthen you in every good deed and word. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (NIV)
12 See to
it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away
from the living God. 13 But
encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you
may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. Hebrews
3:12-13 (NIV)
BUTTER
“There
are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or
successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for affirmation.” George
M. Adams
“Encouragement
costs you nothing to give, but it is priceless to receive.” Anonymous
“On Him
then reckon, to Him look, on Him depend:
and be assured that if you walk with Him, look to Him and expect help
from Him, He will never fail you. An
older brother, who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this,
says for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest
trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but
because I was enabled by His grace to trust in Him, He has always appeared for
my help. I delight in speaking well of
His Name.” George Mueller
“God employs His people to encourage one another. We should delight that God usually works for human beings with other human beings. It forms a bond of friendship, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family. Work to help others, and especially strive to encourage them. Talk cheerily to the young and anxious inquirer, lovingly try to remove obstacles out of his way. When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel down and blow it into a flame. Leave the young believer to discover the roughness of the road by degrees, but tell him of the strength which dwells in God, of the sureness of the promise, and of the charms of communion with Christ. Aim to comfort the sorrowful, and to animate the hopeless. Speak a word in season to him who is weary, and encourage those who are fearful to go on their way with gladness. God encourages you by His promises; Christ encourages you as He points to the heaven He has won for you, and the Spirit encourages you as He works in you to will and to do of His own will and pleasure. Imitate divine wisdom, and encourage others according to the Word.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
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Encouragement
costs nothings and yet is priceless.
·
We
strengthen one another by encouraging words.
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Encouraging
words bring comfort to the weary soul.
